Death wishes and explicit requests for euthanasia in a palliative care hospital: an analysis of patients files

BMC Palliative Care

Table 4 Repeated ER: description of the patients

Patient	1	2	3	4	5	6
Sex	Female	Male	Male	Male	Female	Female
Age	49	69	85	83	95	84
Disease	Metastatic breast cancer	SLA with ventilation	Metastatic prostate cancer	Metastatic prostate cancer	Metastatic uterine cancer	Pleural cancer
Duration of stay (days)	62	21	33	7	15	45
Request for euthanasia (ER) before admission	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Time from admission to first ER (days)	0	14	8	0	2	10
Number of times ER repeated	3	3	5	6	4	6
Time from ER to death (days)	59	5	11	1	5	15
Symptoms	Pain, depression	Dyspnea, respiratory distress	Uncontrolled pain	Diarrhea: complication of irradiation of the small intestine	Major anxiety	Dyspnea, anxiety
Family environment	Separated, one son and one sister	Married, 3 children	Widower, son and stepdaughter, grandchildren	Married	Widow, one son, grandchildren	Widow,son, former daughter-in-law
Multidisciplinary management	Art therapy psychologist psychomotricity physiotherapy hospital visitors	Psychomotricity speech therapy physiotherapy	Psychologist physiotherapy	Refused	Hospital visitors	Psychomotricity volunteers
Multidisciplinary management		Psychomotricity speech therapy physiotherapy	social worker	Refused	Hospital visitors	refusal to see a psychologist
Sedation	Not discussed	Intermittent sedation until death	Sedation for a symptom that remained refractory until death	Nocturnal anxiolytics	Anxiolytics	Anxiolytics, refusal of nocturnal sedation.

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